A new collection of non-fiction from the late author Pat Conroy will be published in October.

The book, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life, due out on Oct. 25, will include letters, interviews, and magazine articles by Conroy, as well as some tributes to the writer from his friends, publisher Nan A. Talese/Doubleday announced on Monday.

Conroy, whose best sellers included The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, died on March 4 of this year at age 70 from pancreatic cancer.

According to the publisher, the new book will include pieces on subjects such as "favorite recent reads, the challenge of motivating to exercise, and processing the loss of dearly-missed friends," as well as remembrances of "The Great Conroy," as his friends called him, including his eulogy.

Nan A. Talese also dropped the tantalizing news that Conroy had turned in part of a novel, in this note to readers in Lowcountry: “When Pat Conroy died, we all felt bereft. He had sent me less than 200 pages of his new novel, The Storms of Aquarius, about four male friends and teachers who came of age during the Vietnam War years, which he very much wanted to finish, but that was not to be. We are still searching his journals for more on this novel, and at some point we may have something to share with you. However, because we did not want his faithful readers to be without something from him we gathered together his various non-fiction pieces and we asked his wife, writer Cassandra King, to contribute an introduction.”